Quotes About Independent Child

#1. I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.

Selma Blair

#2. There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

Peter Gay

#3. I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

Tim Allen

#4. To lead a child (or anyone else!), even inadvertently, away from faithfulness, away from loyalty and bedrock belief simply because we want to be clever or independent is license no parent nor any other person has ever been given.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#5. There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

Margaret Deland

#6. When we found it you said the number would be either the client, or a source of independent corroboration, or a source of further information.

Lee Child

#7. It's good of you to teach the child. A woman needs to be as independent as she can be ore else the world will use her skirts as handkerchiefs and then toss her in the garbage.

Suzanne Hayes

#8. A kid thinks her mother is just that
hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#9. The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

Maria Montessori

#10. Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

Maria Montessori

#11. The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#13. Take away the love and the laughter, narrate the stories as if the characters had acted with malice and self-absorption, and everybody was in a bleak independent film about alcoholism and schizophrenia and child abuse.

Nick Hornby

#14. Even a child cannot sit here without support. Some support will be necessary. No one can live without the support from the material world. After getting the support from one's own Soul, one doesn't need the support from the material world. 'He' will then become independent [support-free].

Dada Bhagwan

#15. The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#16. We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

Maria Montessori

#17. I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

Mos Def

#18. My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not fair," and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.

Lena Dunham

#19. He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family
the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

August Strindberg

#20. Depend on no one else to give you what you want

Destiny's Child

#21. This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.

Maria Montessori

#22. And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

Sydney J. Harris

#23. Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity ... The second fundamental thing is independence.

Maria Montessori

#24. Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me - I was the accident - so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I'm a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better.

Carrie Underwood

#25. The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Erich Fromm

#26. The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

Maria Montessori

#27. I was a very quiet child, quite introverted, really. Independent, yes; I didn't need a lot of supervision. Less so than I did when I got older, maybe. But I was a bookish child, not surprisingly. I could sit quite happily in a corner for hours and entertain myself with books.

John Boyne

#28. The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

Maria Montessori

#29. Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

Thomas Szasz

#30. India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

Karisma Kapoor

#31. We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.

Maria Montessori

#32. I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

Duncan Jones

#33. The preacher must have, bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, independent bearing, with the simplicity and sweetness of a child.

E. M. Bounds

#34. The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

Maria Montessori

#35. My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.

Julia Child

#36. A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

Hyman Rickover